Examples from literature

• Act fourth begins in a forest bower at sunrise. 
• He had turned to retrace his steps when, through the foliage of a bower of jasmine, he thought he could distinguish a white dress. 
• The eating-room, which comes next, is decorated so as to represent a verdant bower, the paintings are under mirrors, and tin-plate, cut out in the Chinese manner, seems to shew light through the foliage. 
• The fair olive tree and the dark cypress mingle their foliage with the luxuriant chestnut boughs, and the frequent marble villa flashes a white gleam from amid its surrounding laurel bowers.